TRENCHSTOP™ 5 - matching tomorrow’s high efficiency demands

Infineon’s new TRENCHSTOP™ 5 IGBT technology redefines "Best-in-Class" IGBT by providing unmatched performance in terms of efficiency for hard switching applications. The new products are optimized for PFC and PWM topologies in applications such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) and Inverterized Welding Machines.

TRENCHSTOP™ 5 provides you the best solution for High Performance Welding and UPS Applications:

Your Requirements

Our Solution

High efficiency, high quality

High switching frequency for higher current output

Low thermals for less cooling and higher reliability

Smaller size and lower weight of welding machine

Best-in-Class for highest performance designs

Highest efficiency at frequency 50-100kHz

Excellent welding quality due to fastest time to arc current (550µsec)

650V TRENCHSTOP™ 5

The TRENCHSTOP™5 technology will be used as the basis of two families.

The first family, the HighSpeed 5 (H5), is available for the ease of use/plug and play replacement of existing IGBTs. It is a soft, high-speed IGBT requiring low design-in efforts.

The second family, the HighSpeed 5 FAST (F5), requires higher design effort, but offers the highest ever efficiency seen by an IGBT, for example more than 98% system efficiency has been observed in application measurements in a photovoltaic inverter using a H4 bridge.

Both are released with and without a 650V, anti-parallel, free-wheeling hyperfast silicon diode (FWD), where the hyperfast diode is an Infineon developed diode technology, from Infineon’s proprietary Rapid diode family.

Ultrafast Reverse Recovery Power Silicon Diodes

650 V Rapid 1 Diode

Infineon`s Rapid 1 diode family, with 1.35V temperature-stable forward voltage (V F), ensures the lowest conduction losses and by means of soft recovery keeps EMI emissions to a minimum. The devices are perfectly suited for Power Factor Correction (PFC) topologies, typically found in major home appliances, like air conditioners and washing machines.

Benefits

1.35V temperature-stable forward voltage (V F)

Highest S-factor for ultimate softness and low EMI filtering

Lowest I rrm to provide low turn-on losses on the boost switch

For applications switching between 18kHz and 40kHz

Key Applications

UPS

Air Conditioning System

Home Appliance

Welding

650V Rapid 2 Diode

The Rapid 2 diode family is designed for applications switching between 40kHz and 100kHz by offering low reverse recovery charge (Q rr) and time (t rr) to minimize the reverse conduction times attributed to the power switch turn-on losses and thus providing maximum efficiency.